Without a doubt, one of the greatest writers of all time. If you haven’t read Ursula’s books then you haven’t read books. She will be missed, but will be forever known by generations to come through her amazing writing that will undoubtedly stand the test of time. And she loved cats, what more does one need to say?
While the list below is rather extensive, it certainly isn’t complete, and i know i’ve missed quite a few pieces of Ursula’s wonderful writing. Rest assured that i will keep adding to it over time as i find more.
Standalones
April in Paris – 1962
The Masters – 1963
Darkness Box – 1963
Selection – 1964
Nine Lives – 1969
A Trip to the Head – 1970
Things – 1970
The Good Trip – 1970
The Lathe of Heaven – 1971
Direction of the Road – 1973
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas – 1973
The Field of Vision – 1973
The Stars Below – 1974
Schrödinger’s Cat – 1974
Intracom – 1974
The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics – 1974
Mazes – 1975
The New Atlantis – 1975
Very Far Away from Anywhere Else – 1976
The Water Is Wide – 1976
Walking in Cornwall – 1976
The Eye Altering – 1976
Gwilan’s Harp – 1977
Ghost Story – 1977 •• Encore, Magazine of the Arts vol. 1, issue 6, April-May 1977
Courtroom Scene – 1977 •• Encore, Magazine of the Arts vol. 1, issue 6, April-May 1977
SQ – 1978
The Eye of the Heron – 1978
The First Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb – 1978
Some Approaches to the Problem of the Shortage of Time – 1979 •• AKA. Where Does Time Go?
The Pathways of Desire – 1979
Malheur County – 1979
Tillai and Tylissos – 1979
The Beginning Place – 1980
The White Donkey – 1980
The Phoenix – 1982
The Spoons in the Basement – 1982
The Professor’s Houses – 1982
The Wife’s Story – 1982
Small Change – 1982
Sur – 1982
The Ascent of the North Face – 1983
May’s Lion – 1983
The Map in the Attic – 1983
Time in the Valley – 1984
Always Coming Home – 1985
In the Red Zone – 1983
She Unnames Them – 1985
Horse Camp – 1986
Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight – 1987
Half Past Four – 1987
Daddy’s Big Girl – 1987
The Ship Ahoy – 1987
Legends for a New Land – 1988 •• Mythlore, Vol. 56
Kore 87 – June 1988 •• variant of A Child Bride
A Child Bride – 1988 •• variant of Kore 87
Hand, Cup, Shell – 1989
In and Out – 1989
Limberlost – 1989
Texts – 1990
The Kerastion – 1990
Crosswords – 1990
The Creatures on My Mind – 1990
Bill Weisler – 1990
Sleepwalkers – 1991
Newton’s Sleep – 1991
A Winter Solstice Ritual – 1991
Foam Women, Rain Women – 1991
Geezers – 1991
True Love -1991
Quoits – 1991
Hernes – 1991
No Boats – 1992
Findings – 1992
The First Contact with the Gorgonids – 1992
The Rock That Changed Things – 1992
Standing Ground – 1992
Climbing to the Moon – 1992
The Poacher – 1993
Blue Moon over Thurman Street – 1993
In the Drought – 1994
Olders – 1995
Ether, OR – 1995
Sunday in Summer in Seatown – 1995
The Lost Children – 1996
Ruby on the 67 – 1996
The Wise Woman – 1996
The Island of the Immortals – 1998
The Silence of the Asonu – 1998
The Fliers of Gy – 2000
The Birthday of the World – 2000
The Royals of Hegn – 2000
The Building – 2001
Social Dreaming of the Frin – 2002
The Wild Girls – 2002
Paradises Lost – 2002
The Seasons of the Ansarac – 2003
Changing Planes – 2003
Lavinia – 2008
LADeDeDa – 2009
Elementals – 2013
The Jar of Water – 2014
Jar of Water – 2016
Pity and Shame – 2018
The Hainish Universe aka Novels of the Ekumen aka The Hainish Cycle
Semley’s Necklace – 1964
Rocannon’s World – 1966
Planet of Exile – 1966
City of Illusions – 1967
The Left Hand of Darkness – 1969
Winter’s King – 1969
Vaster than Empires and More Slow – 1971
The Word for World is Forest – 1972
The Dispossessed – 1974
The Day Before the Revolution – 1974
The Shobies’ Story – 1990
Dancing to Ganam – 1993
Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea – 1994
Unchosen Love – 1994
The Matter of Seggri – 1994
Solitude – 1994
Coming of Age in Karhide – 1995
Mountain Ways – 1996
The Telling – 2000
Yeowe and Werel
Betrayals – 1994
Forgiveness Day – 1994
A Man of the People – 1995
A Woman’s Liberation – 1995
Old Music and the Slave Women – 1996
The Earthsea Cycle
The Word of Unbinding – 1964
The Rule of Names – 1964
A Wizard of Earthsea – 1968
The Tombs of Atuan – 1970
The Farthest Shore – 1972
Tehanu – 1990
Dragonfly – 1998
Darkrose and Diamond – 1999
The Finder – 2001
The Bones of the Earth – 2001
On the High Marsh – 2001
The Other Wind – 2001
The Daughter of Odren – 2014
Firelight – 2018
Orsinia
Folksong from the Montayna Province – 1959
An die Musik – 1961
Imaginary Countries – 1973
Brothers and Sisters – 1976
A Week in the Country – 1976
The Diary of the Rose – 1976
The Fountains – 1976
The Barrow
Ile Forest – 1976
Conversations at Night – 1976
The Road East – 1976
The House – 1976
The Lady of Moge – 1976
Malafrena – 1979
Two Delays on the Northern Line – 1979
Unlocking the Air – 1990
Annals of the Western Shore
Gifts – 2004
Voices – 2006
Powers – 2007
Poetry
Wild Angels – 1975
Hard Words and Other Poems – 1981
King Dog: A Screenplay Screenplay – 1985
Wild Oats and Fireweed – 1988
Going out with Peacocks and Other Poems – 1994
The Twins, The Dream: Two Voices/Las Gemelas, El Sueño: Dos Voces – 1997
Sixty Odd – 1999
Incredible Good Fortune – 2006
Four Different Poems – 2007
Out Here: Poems and Images from Steens Mountain Country – 2010
The Wild Girls Plus – 2011
Finding My Elegy – 2012
Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014 – 2015
So Far So Good: Poems 2014-2018 – 2018
Catwings (Children’s Stories)
Catwings – 1988
Catwings Return – 1989
Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings – 1994
Jane On Her Own – 1999
Children’s Stories
Leese Webster – 1979
The Adventure of Cobbler’s Rune – 1982
Solomon Leviathan’s Nine Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World – 1983
A Visit from Dr. Katz – 1988
Fire and Stone – 1988
Fish Soup – 1992
A Ride on the Red Mare’s Back – 1992
Tom Mouse – 2002
Cat Dreams – 2009
Collections
The Wind’s Twelve Quarters – 1975
Dreams Must Explain Themselves – 1975
Orsinian Tales – 1976
The Compass Rose – 1982
Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences – 1987
Searoad – 1991
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea – 1994
Four Ways to Forgiveness – 1995
Unlocking the Air and Other Stories – 1996
The Birthday of the World and Other Stories – 2002
The Wild Girls – 2011
The Unreal and the Real – 2012
The Complete Orsinia – 2016
The Found and the Lost – 2016
Five Ways to Forgiveness – 2017
The Books of Earthsea – 2018
In Periodicals
The Silence of the Asonu – 1998
The Island of the Immortals – 1998
Non Fiction
“Fifteen Vultures, The Strop, and the Old Lady” – 1972
From Elfland to Poughkeepsie – 1973
Dreams Must Explain Themselves – 1973
Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons?” – Winter 1974
“The Child and the Shadow” – April 1975
“Ketterer on The Left Hand of Darkness” – July 1975
“American SF and The Other” – November 1975
“Is Gender Necessary?” – 1976
“Science Fiction and Mrs Brown” – 1976
The Altered I: An Encounter with Science Fiction – 1976
The Language of the Night – 1979
The Art of Bunditsu – 1982
Dancing at the Edge of the World – 1989
Way of the Water’s Going: Images of the Northern California Coastal Range – 1989
Myth and Archetype in Science Fiction – 1991
Talking About Writing – 1992
Earthsea Revisioned – 1993
“All Happy Families” – 1997
Tao Te Ching – 1997
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew – 1998
One Despising Genres – 2002
Answers to a Questionaire – 2002
A Few Words to a Young Writer – 2002
The Wave in the Mind – 2004
Staying Awake While We Read – 2008 •• essay
Cheek by Jowl – 2009
A Lovely Art – 2011 •• interview by Terry Bisson
The Conversation of the Modest – 2011 •• essay
The Golden Age – 2012
Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story – 2015
Words Are My Matter – 2016
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters – 2017
Dreams Must Explain Themselves and Other Essays 1972-2004 – 2018
Conversations on Writing – 2018
The Last Interview – February 2018
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction – 2019